
          Providence December 22, 1846

My Dear Sir

I have neglected to return thanks for your kind letter of Sept. 23 as
I have anticipated the pleasure of sending you a small package of plants
long before this. I appreciate and am grateful for the aid you render me.
It will give me pleasure to have the polygonum to describe in my Add. 
to R.I. plants."

I have been sadly pressed for time and even now have hrriedly
put up some plants that you desired and added some which
I have thought might prove of service to you in your exchanges.
If you will at the commencement of another season give me a list of
any thing you want collected , I will make the collection with
pleasure and thus insure you a larger quantity of any species that
you want than I could furnish otherwise.

I have a small package of plants for [Carey?]: is he now in New York
and can you tell me how to direct it now that he has (I presume)
given up his store in Broad St.

There are some plants in the bundle that I greatly desire you
to look at. Among these are the species of panicium in packet No. 4 and
perhaps with the exception of the one found on salt marshes and labelled
P. fascicularis. The Broni[Brownii?] puzzle me: you have two of them with my 
names. Is Triticum caninum right?

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